Excerpt from Chapter 7 of Reign of Discursive Terror, the revised and expanded edition of The Ideology of Tyranny (2007, 2011). New biographical segment added to the original text with a view to exploring the mechanics of intellectual fame in light of the deeper dynamics of political powerplay. Negri’s trajectory is exceptional in this regard, and, in a way, given the egregiousness of its terrorist fallout, even more remarkable and, politologically speaking, more significant than Foucault’s. The exemplarity of this episode transcends its Italian dimension.
Guido Giacomo Preparata